Thriller Evaluation
Frequently in thrillers there are the conventions of suspense. This is shown in the opening of my groups’ thriller ‘The Following’. We created tension by not showing a specific characters face by using camera shots and camera work such as point of view and over the shoulder. We also included camera work that included tilting from the feet to the back of the head and a close-up of the feet. This creates many questions to the audience, as they don’t know who this mysterious character is. Another thriller convention that was included was the setting of the attic. The attic gave a creepy mis-en-scene and showed a contrast between light, the dark lighting in the attic and the natural lighting from the outside. The last panning shot of the different pictures was influenced by the movie ‘One hour photo’. Having this shot influenced by this movie thriller connotes that the character in this movie is a slightly disturbed person which adds to the convention of a thriller.
In the opening of this thriller there are only two protagonists. Looking at them you can see that they represent two opposite characters that can attract a wider audience. The only comparison between both of them is that they look roughly around the same age. This is 16-18. Whereas ones a male this is showed to the audience by clothes. A baggy black tracksuit represents a typical adolescence because this is what they mainly wear now. The fact that it’s black connotes that the character is very dark and mysterious. In the opening the hood is up for the whole time which creates this character to be very anonymous. But looking closely you can see that this person has a black ethnicity. This particular person is represented slightly as a creep because of the constant obsession of the other character. Whereas the other protagonist is a female who is represented as a typical teenager who may even be superficial. This is shown by her going to a clothes shop and then a phone shop purchasing items. This character has a Greek ethnicity which is opposite to the other character which creates a different representation especially to the target audience.
The movie ‘The following’ seems like it would be a small independent UK release distributed around a descent number of UK ‘arthouse’ cinemas. This is because a UK audience can relate to it more with the characters and the rest of the mis-en-scene. It wouldn’t get any bigger than this because it doesn’t have a big enough budget or have a wide enough audience to become a Hollywood blockbuster.
For the thriller ‘The Following’ the target audience for this film would male and female 17-21 year olds. This is because the two characters in the movie have a totally different race from each other which widens the target audience. As the audience is around 17-21 they would mainly be in a college/sixth form or university. You may still get workers who are this age who didn’t want to carry on their education but would end up having quite a low paid job. Thinking about the class of the target audience it would mainly be mainly a young working and middle class, this because at this age you are only the class of your parents and I find that this audience would be more of a niche audience. The reason why they are a niche audience because the movie doesn’t appeal to really big audience or have a big enough budget to be mainstream. For example the target audience would in include someone like… Phillip, 18, is doing his last year in college but has a part time weekend job in Sainsbury’s. Likes getting clothes from Topman, Primark and H&M. And has an I-pod, Nintendo DS and a Sony Erricson.
The trailer for the movie ‘The Following’ would be shown on channel 4, Film 4, the 15 minute break between movies on sky Action/Thriller. Also other channels that appeal to the target audience. You could also see the trailer on ‘You tube’ for those who loves the internet more than television. It wouldn’t be on the really big billboards on top of buildings, but it would be on the billboards on the bus stops. There isn’t any ‘star’ lead role in the movie they are all fresh up coming new actors. So this would be they’re first big British film.
I’ve enjoyed making this film a lot even though I wasn’t behind the camera much, I did do some of the point of view shots. Which I did like especially feeling like a director shouting out action. But what I found the most challenging was the Final cut pro. It was new to me but it was easy to get the hang of especially how we filmed a certain way which would make the match- cuts easier. But my favourite was doing the sound and music, watching the film at the same time as adding all the sounds for example the door opening and closing and the alarm of the phone going off, doing all of this was fun to do. Using the blog was like having a diary on to the internet. Because it I had to record down everything we had that linked to the thriller and the process of making it. To have the film then launched onto the internet would be perfect because it would get a bigger audience because other people would then send it to other to go and watch. To also see the movie on Youtube would be good because then we could get views and peoples ratings on how they feel about the movie.
Making a movie without a storyboard is nearly impossible which is why it is there for a reason. Even though we didn’t always have a storyboard with us, we had a very strong idea of what we wanted to film and edit. So we kind of had a mental storyboard with us. Going back at the preliminary task I found it very difficult to do the match-cuts on to the computer as I was very new at it and I thought that I would never get it. But after moving onto my own film it got easier as I knew what I wanted so I then got the hang of it. What I have learnt from all of this is that it’s not that easy making a film and editing but having the post-productions makes it feel like a routine as there is always a deadline for making a film.
As I got to watch back the film with an audience not just to myself, I got to hear their feed back. A lot of it was very similar from everyone and that was that we had very good match-cuts, the credits was very nice and simple using just black and white. Having the credits simple didn’t make it cheesy or tacky. They also mentioned the fact that one of the characters was wearing a red coat which made her stand out to the audience which made everyone know that she was a target. They also liked the sound effects that fitted perfectly was the door opening and closing and the sound of the camera click. Looking back at the thriller I would only change little things such as a female playing a boy. It would have been much easier and faster if an actual boy played that character. But apart from that I wouldn’t change anything else especially the main female character wearing a bright red coat because it made her dominant to the audience as she stood out.
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Friday, 27 March 2009
Sunday, 1 March 2009
The finale part of the thriller
Friday 27th Febuary Gourgina and I both decided to complete the thriller by adding the soundtrack to it. I started it off by just playing around with the insruments and seeing what sound with what, and by what sounded like a thriller. After playing around i found a violin and an acoustic bass that worked well together and fitted in with the short film. We then tried to find something that was very suttle right at the begining, but because we couldn't agree on what to have we ended up the acoustic bass at the beggining but at a low volume. After figuring out the music we then had to add in the sound which included the door opening and closing, the alarm for the phone and the click for when you take a picture. Adding all of those sounds at the right place was fun and i enjoyed it the most. Seeing the overall outcome i felt a sense of relieve that the opening to a thriller is finally over. But out of the whole experience i enjoyed the filming and the music/sound the most because i find i am better at it compared to the rest of the group.
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Monday 16th Febuary- Editing
On monday's lesson we began to finish the rest of our editing, just adding in the finale match-cuts and so on, so that their will be less to do for thursday's lesson. We finished majority of the editing as it was simple to do because we thought about the editing and the match-cuts in advance when we was filming. But we didn't have enough time to include the last couple shots. So because of this one group member went to workshop to add in the last shots.
Thursday 25th Febuary we officially finished the editing by adding the finale extra's. This included the credits, two fades, one at the begining and the other at the end, snap shots to show to the audience that a picture is being taken and to emphasise this we changed the colour to black and white. After this we then started to carry on with the music and sound track, to continue with it by stretching it longer and by making it fit into the oppening of a thriller.
Thursday 25th Febuary we officially finished the editing by adding the finale extra's. This included the credits, two fades, one at the begining and the other at the end, snap shots to show to the audience that a picture is being taken and to emphasise this we changed the colour to black and white. After this we then started to carry on with the music and sound track, to continue with it by stretching it longer and by making it fit into the oppening of a thriller.
Friday, 20 February 2009
Monday 16th Febuary
Monday 16th Febuary me and Ursula met up at Kats house to do the rest of our filming. As the lighting changed from natural to orange at the begining we had to re-shoot a little of the attic scene. There was the part where i had to walk into the shot pick up a camera and then walk down the stairs. But because we had to re-shoot that section Kat forgot the camera and so we had to improvise to try and use a phona as a camera. We also shot more of me walking out of the house and going to follow Kat. As we got outside it was easier to shoot because there was more space but sometimes you would get people trying to get into the shot. Because it's suppose to be me following Kat we had to try and show this by getting both of us in the shot but yet i couldn't stand too close to Kat because then it wouldn't look realistic. To make our thriller slightly different to others we used a lot of point of view shots to show more suspicion to the audience. We also used point of view shots because when it comes down to the editing we want to add snap shots to show that the person is taking a few pictures.
As we moved on to the high road it was slightly harder and tireing to film because it was so busy and some people would ruin the shot and it was horrible having to carry the tri-pod around. It was also difficult because our idea was to show Kat walking in and then out of a couple of shops. We did end up doing this idea but we had to constantly keep showing the shop workers what we have done because it's advertising the shops. We didn't officially finish our filming that day because we don't know how to finish the whole thriller.
As we moved on to the high road it was slightly harder and tireing to film because it was so busy and some people would ruin the shot and it was horrible having to carry the tri-pod around. It was also difficult because our idea was to show Kat walking in and then out of a couple of shops. We did end up doing this idea but we had to constantly keep showing the shop workers what we have done because it's advertising the shops. We didn't officially finish our filming that day because we don't know how to finish the whole thriller.
Thursday 22nd January
Thursday 22nd January the group was supposed to do some more filming. But because one of the group members became ill we couldn't do any filming because it takes place at her house and as her as the main character. But in the lesson we was told to work on the sound for the thriller. We thought there was no need to because we got told in tutorial to do the sound last. So we worked with what we had and dicided to do the sound for the oppening of the already edited section. Because we started the sound so early we already know what we want for the thriller we just have to edit it to the finale piece.
Monday 26th January
On monday 26th January our group started editing the first section of our thriller. There was slight difficulty in doing the match-cut with me walking on to the camera from one angle to another, because we had to make sure that it was the same foot landing in the other angle. It was also difficult doing the editing as a group because we all couldn't exactly agree on how to edit the whole section. But overall it did come out well but the only problem was that as we saw it overall we noticed that the lighting has changed because it got darker outside and we had to use the light which is more orangey than natural lighting.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
my preliminary film
On monday 19th January we went straight to the computer room to have a tutorial on how to use the sound on the computers. For a practice and for a better understanding we took certain clips from the James Bond film ,Casino Royal, and had to watch and then add the sound to it after. We then got the chance to add diegetic and non-diegetic sound to our past filming we did in the classroom. It was quite difficult but it can be very easy to understand once getting used to. I had a reasonable footage of added sound to my short film but it wouldn't upload to the blog. But it doesn't really matter because we still have an example of Kat's one on the blog to represent our groups work.
On thursday lesson the group started filming at Kat's house, because she has the write setting. We thought that we could get the scene's in the attic first and out of the way so that it would be much easier. As we haven't got enough time in total we planned to film in order of the storyboard so that we can edit as we go along. Filming was quite difficult because we had to clear out the attic to think about the mis-en-scene. Doing the filming with the group was fun. Because it's abit more easier when you don't have a time limit. It was also interesting because as i am the protagonist i got the chance to dress and act like a boy. Which was good because the character is a boy and it's one of those things that has to be done.
On the friday we took out the equiptment to use for sunday. This included the camera, the battery, the tri-pod, the light and the light stand. Filming on the sunday was just finishing off the routine with the boy in the attic. This time we was racing against time, because we started later than thursday. Because we started later it started to get darker outside so we then had to use the light which was quite difficult because we kept thinking about if the lighting would match from the previous day. Compared to the natural lighting that we used before the lighting that we used looked too orangey and before we could see shaddows. But overall we did end up finishing the first part of our thriller.
On thursday lesson the group started filming at Kat's house, because she has the write setting. We thought that we could get the scene's in the attic first and out of the way so that it would be much easier. As we haven't got enough time in total we planned to film in order of the storyboard so that we can edit as we go along. Filming was quite difficult because we had to clear out the attic to think about the mis-en-scene. Doing the filming with the group was fun. Because it's abit more easier when you don't have a time limit. It was also interesting because as i am the protagonist i got the chance to dress and act like a boy. Which was good because the character is a boy and it's one of those things that has to be done.
On the friday we took out the equiptment to use for sunday. This included the camera, the battery, the tri-pod, the light and the light stand. Filming on the sunday was just finishing off the routine with the boy in the attic. This time we was racing against time, because we started later than thursday. Because we started later it started to get darker outside so we then had to use the light which was quite difficult because we kept thinking about if the lighting would match from the previous day. Compared to the natural lighting that we used before the lighting that we used looked too orangey and before we could see shaddows. But overall we did end up finishing the first part of our thriller.
Saturday, 17 January 2009
Monday 12th January
On monday we were given the task as a group to think about our pitch idea for our thriller. As a group we have to be ready to pitch our idea to the rest of our class members, our teachers and the technitions.But before this happened we were given a sheet by Rebecca to think about key features we should think about. This included mise-en-scene, editing, sound, lighting, camera-shots, setting/location, audience, a story board and a production schedule. As a group we also had to know ourselves key icons in a thriller that we should include in the opening of the thriller. In the lesson we had already thought of a very brief idea of the begining of a thriller. But because we ran out of time as a group we decided get together on wednesday to be at the workshop, so that we would be ready for thursday's lesson.
Wednesday 14th January we all attended the workshop like we planned and worked on our preparation for thursday's lesson. We used our brief idea and then we then just worked mainly on the editing, sound, lighting,camera work, setting/location and the storyboard. Doing this we listed numbers from 1-18 which was the number of shots we were using. We went through the story slowly and bit by bit so that we can go through and write down what is happening in each shot (mis-en-scene). We did it like that in that format so that i can take it home and draw out a storyboard that we all agree on. We spoke about the lighting, it being a natural light as the original thriller idea was going to be mainly set outside. In the workshop we also decided on our production schedule, we spoke about what days we can all work together out of lessons. As a group we gave each other homework to write in neat and with more detail on the key media conventions. I was given the task to draw out the storyboard so that we have something to follow when it comes to the filming and the editing, as we decided to write down and draw out how it may possibly look but in 2D. So that for the next day we will be ready for our pitch.
Thursday 15th January the group was slightly nervous on talking to the whole class. But i was confident because we had all our ideas sorted out from the previous day. But then one of the technitions entered the room to see about every groups idea. He then got to our group and then said to us that our idea sounds to complicated. As a group we did dissagree with him, but he then explained and said that some of the best AS oppening to a thriller coursework are the ones that seem very simple. So we thought about it and decided to keep the same concept of the idea but to just change the camera shots and to take out varius shots at the begining. In the end we still liked our final opening to a thriller idea but the group and I found it quite frustrating because we whent through all that work and spending ages drawing out a storyboard for it to be scrapped. It was also very annoying because it made us more nervous to pitch our idea to the class because it seemed like we wasn't ready because we didn't have a story board written down we just had it written down mentally. But before that we spoke to our teacher Annabel so that she has a better understanding of our idea than the rest of the class.
Wednesday 14th January we all attended the workshop like we planned and worked on our preparation for thursday's lesson. We used our brief idea and then we then just worked mainly on the editing, sound, lighting,camera work, setting/location and the storyboard. Doing this we listed numbers from 1-18 which was the number of shots we were using. We went through the story slowly and bit by bit so that we can go through and write down what is happening in each shot (mis-en-scene). We did it like that in that format so that i can take it home and draw out a storyboard that we all agree on. We spoke about the lighting, it being a natural light as the original thriller idea was going to be mainly set outside. In the workshop we also decided on our production schedule, we spoke about what days we can all work together out of lessons. As a group we gave each other homework to write in neat and with more detail on the key media conventions. I was given the task to draw out the storyboard so that we have something to follow when it comes to the filming and the editing, as we decided to write down and draw out how it may possibly look but in 2D. So that for the next day we will be ready for our pitch.
Thursday 15th January the group was slightly nervous on talking to the whole class. But i was confident because we had all our ideas sorted out from the previous day. But then one of the technitions entered the room to see about every groups idea. He then got to our group and then said to us that our idea sounds to complicated. As a group we did dissagree with him, but he then explained and said that some of the best AS oppening to a thriller coursework are the ones that seem very simple. So we thought about it and decided to keep the same concept of the idea but to just change the camera shots and to take out varius shots at the begining. In the end we still liked our final opening to a thriller idea but the group and I found it quite frustrating because we whent through all that work and spending ages drawing out a storyboard for it to be scrapped. It was also very annoying because it made us more nervous to pitch our idea to the class because it seemed like we wasn't ready because we didn't have a story board written down we just had it written down mentally. But before that we spoke to our teacher Annabel so that she has a better understanding of our idea than the rest of the class.
Friday, 9 January 2009
Match cut practice session
The task we had to do for thursdays session, was we had to to them. Doing this we had to use a range of camera shots to show this. After we then had to edit all the shots to make a short clip. The task i got given to do was the camera work with another person in the group and telling Georgina how to walk through the door and how to sit down and where to stand. So that it would also be easier when it comes to the editing.
I was happy with the camera work i thought they all worked well. I personally thought that the most successful shot was the hand held over the shoulder shot. It was quite hard to do because i had to walk with the camera and try and keep it still to make sure that it stays as an over the shoulder shot, and try and makse sure that it doesn't become a close-up. There was a couple of wide- shots that didnt work because we thought the camera was at the wrong angle. So we didn't end up putting it in the small clip.
Editing I find is the hard part because its everyone ageering together and getting all the different camera angle shots to mesh together. Starting it off was the quite alright you just start off with a shot you think you want, but it's untill you move onto the next clip trying to make it fit, so you have to go back to the previous shot to make it all fit. After starting you then beggin to get the hang of it and that's when it starts to get easier. In total the short film made sense and because of that i think that it was successful. The only problem is that for a short film our groups clip was way to short it was only 14 seconds. So i think we need to work on our timing for the real thriller so that we can spend a decent amount of time on the filming and on the editing.
I did learn somthing about mise-en-scene, even though we had to film in a classroom that was previously used we had to try and avoid it out of the camera shot. But yet doing that we had to work with what we had in the classroom eventhough we had students dissplay in the background. We still tried to add abit more mise-en-scene through the camera by re-arranging two tables in the classroom and by giving Ursula a magazine to look at with Johny Depp on the cover just in case we see that through the shot. Because its suppose to be two young girls in a room and to also show that we gave her that specific magazine.
The group didn't manage to create any element of suspense because we didn't get to finish our clip. We spent too much time on showing a certain person in the group on how to walk through the door so that it will look certain way when it comes to the match cut. But unfortunately that person wasn't getting it right which then wasted time.
We didn't forget anything when it came to the filming and the editing. For example we always remember the 5 second rule, to wait 5 seconds before and after each shot. And with the editing learning from our previos misstake we remembered to save every 2minutes.
As i said before, because wd didn't get to finish we didn't get to show any tension or conventions of a real thriller film.
The feedback of our teacher Annabel was that we did the match cut very well but it was a bit short. And that for the real thriller that we have to do, to just watch the time so we can get everything done without it being rushed. Which i agree a lot with her I thought we did the match cut very good and that we need to be aware of the time for the next time.
Sunday, 4 January 2009
The Shining Homework
The phycological thriller the Shining uses lighting, use of camera work, music/sound, editing and setting/location to give an unexpected and spooky atmosphere to the audience. The lighting is a bright white light that shows everything in the shot to the audience. The clear light also sets the atmosphere because it sets the scene of the hotel. As hotels always have a clear light on in the corridoor. The setting of the short clip is in a hotel. The hotel shows that its a public place even though there's some behind closed doors, but a hotel can be public or private. There is a range of camera movement and angles in this clip to create suspence. The camera follows the little boy riding through the corridoor which forces the audience to accompany him. The camera does this by tracking behind him as its tracking the motion. When the boy stops the camera shows a mid-shot of the door and the door number. Which shows importance to the audience for later on in the movie. The boy looking at the door shows this through a tilt of the camera. Which makes the audience feel vulnerable as we are looking at the door through at a low angle, which makes us feel like the protagonist in the clip. The music is creepy and slow with the instruments of a piano and a violin. The slow music gradually builds up a bit faster and louder which creates suspence and makes the audience feel anxious with what's about to happen next. The sound is important because without it doesn't give the same effect with whats going to happen next with the audience. The editing shows that its a thriller because it shows the wholebuilding from the outside then it cutes to the inside of the hotel by showing the little boy on his bike. Then the audience sees the boy getting ready to open the door but it then cuts to the little girls for a couple seconds then cuts back to the little boy. This shows that its a thriller because it builds up to make the audience jump.
Monday, 15 December 2008
Thriller
We have started to start our thriller project, we were all put into groups and began a tutorial on hour to use final cut pro. We were then told we were going to have to film and edit a practice test of a simple thriller. The next lesson Mickey our technician gave us a lesson on how to prepare and use the cameras and tripods. After the introduction we started to film our trial film, we had to use 12 different shots and we had no limit to what we could do. Our story was a based on a woman who we didn’t see her face through out the whole piece until she exited the room at the end of the scene the camera then pans down on to the newspaper we see throughout and the front page headline is “killer on the loose”. I think our short film was successful as it fulfilled the brief. We also used all twelve camera shots. Most of the shots were successful as we managed to match cut the film together so it flowed easily. One of the best Shots we did was when the lift opened and she walked out as it looked realistic as there was a person in the background, also you can see imagine the lift going up with out having to see it actually moving.
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To start the process of making our thriller openings we had to look at different examples of how to make a good thriller. In lesson we watched several different clips of different types of thrillers. I have chosen The Shining to analyse as I think it’s a good example of a psychological thriller. The lighting contributes to the scene as when the boy is cycling down the hall way the lighting is bright, which adds to the shock of the twins. As the dark is considered to be scary, so people feel a sense of security. The use of the camera makes the audience believe something is going to happen to the boy as the camera is following behind him, it is also shot as a low angle to highlight he’s in control in the shot. When he’s opening the door the camera is on the same level as him to build suspension and to make the audience think something is about to happen. The music also causes tension as its slow piano and violin music, which creates an eerie tension that, builds up until the picture of the twin’s flashes up scaring the audience. We watched the clip with the sound off and it wasn’t as scary, as the music builds the tension.
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We were given the task to do another practice but for match cut so we could learn how to make our thrillers streamline. I was happy with my film work as it looks good and we had many different angels, although we didn’t get a lot of our filming done as we could not get some of the angles right. One of the best shots we had was an over the shoulder as she walks through the door as you can see the environment where she’s about to walk into. The editing was fairly easy as we shot our film according to when and where we wanted to edit our footage together. Our short film made sense as the opening shot were self explanatory. We created an element of suspense as when
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In the lesson on the 12th of January, we were told we were going to have to make a pitch for our thriller ideas to the class and the teacher. We started by discussing our ideas in the group and come up with a story line. After that we then made a shot list, of each shot we would do and how we would use the camera to show this. Today we discussed our story board further and decided on locations and props. We then planned our pitch for tomorrow’s lesson, as we have to talk about lighting camera angles, location and music to the rest of our class.
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In the lesson on thursday 15th january, we were told to prepare a pitch for a thriller that we will present to the class. Although when we had nearly finished preparing out pitch, we got told our idea was to complicated and that we had to change it and make a new pitch. In our pitch we spoke about, the music, setting, lighting, use of camera and editing. Our pitch was successful even though we had to change our pitch at the last minute.
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In Monday’s lesson, we had to learn how to make a soundtrack for our thriller. To begin we did an online tutorial for the Quantum of Solace film. We did different activities throughout the tutorial. One activity was we were given a scene from the film and different sounds. We had to play the sounds that were appropriate tot he situation an example of this was when we were given a picture of a casino and we had the noises we thought would be part of that scene, I added the card shuffling, bar ambiance, talking and the playing chips. After this, we were given a task to add noise to a piece of film; the film was James Bond climbing on to a truck, beating up the driver. The track then collided and blew up. We then started to get used to using the sound track software. We began by uploading our short film we filmed last week, we then added the sound effects such as doors opening and footsteps, as we were told to add the music on last so we could make sure all the effects sounded correct. I then found a guitar noise that made the piece seem suspicious I then added a bass beat on top.
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In Thursday’s lesson, we began filming out thriller, to do this we went to Kats house as we were filming in her attic, as we had rented the equipment out from the night before. We chose an attic as we thought it would give an element of suspicions to our film. To begin we set up the camera and lighting. We then started filming our project by filming the opening shot of our thriller, which was filming Solone tying her shoe laces, it took a few attempt to get the shot right but we got it right in the end, we also filmed walking over to turn her phone alarm off. We had aimed to film a shot of the alarm going off on the phone although when we started filming this shot we noticed we could not see the picture on the phone. Unfortunately, we ran out of time and had to get back to college for 12.15, so we arranged to meet on Sunday to catch up on the filming.
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When we met up on Sunday, we continued filming from Thursday’s lesson. We re-filmed the phone alarm, as we had problems trying to get the alarm to work properly, we could not see the picture and the alarm sound was not loud enough to hear on camera. Therefore, we decided we were going to make our own alarm by just putting a picture up on the screen and we said we would use an alarm noise from soundtrack pro. We then filmed Solone walking out of the room which took a few attempts as we couldn’t get the lighting right and she kept falling down the stairs as they were very small. Although we did get our shot and it looked very effective.
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We decided we were going to edit on Mondays as it is the shorter lesson and we would not be able to get much filming done. On Monday, we edited our work from Thursday and Sunday. The editing process was relatively easy, as we had decided how we were going to edit the piece together as we were filming. Although when we got to the end of our footage we noticed that the lighting is dramatically different on the Thursday to the Sunday, we then decided we were going to re-film some of Sunday’s footage this Thursday when it is brighter.
While filming one of the girls became ill and had to go to hospital for two weeks, so in this time the rest of the group did the title sequence and the soundtrack. We used a plain theme for out credits, as we did not want to draw the attention away from the film we had made. The soundtrack was a hard task as we have only filmed 20 seconds of our thriller, although we came up with a basic idea for the music, so when we have our thriller finished we can go back to soundtrack pro and edit the music we have already created to fit the film.
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On Monday of half term, we were told we could take a camera out so that we catch up on our filming. We started by re-filming a previous shot that did not work in our thriller due to the lighting being different. We then began to shoot the rest of our thriller outside. We did certain shots, which did not work, and we would re-film them until they looked right. We also found it difficult shooting on the main road due to the traffic and people crossing the road. We also had a problem with people looking into the camera, meaning we could not use that take. We only have to film one more shot to put at the end of our thriller.
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In our Thursday lesson we then finished editing the rest of our film together, we had already though of the match cuts and transitions we were to use between different shots. After we finished editing our film together, we had to put in the credits and film titles. We decided to have a black page with white writing on, as it was simple yet effective. All that was left was to create edit the music we had already made; although after we added the edited music on to our film we realised that the music did not match the thriller. Therefore, we started again with the music now we knew how the thriller went we could match the music to what was going on in the film. Georgina and Solone then edit the music to fit our thriller.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
On the 1st December we started our thrillers. We were formed into groups of four, had a tutorial of how to use the editing on the computers and then we were given a storyboard. The storyboard was given for the group to do a practice thriller. It was to show a mystery person using minimum camera shots of 12. Which leads to thursdays lesson 4th December.
On thursday in Gez's lesson we were given another tutorial by Mickey on how to use the camers and the tripods. We learned how to put in and how to take out the battery,how to put them on the tripod without breaking the camera, we also learnt how to do stuff like recording, putting it off and on standby, how to do mid-shot long-shot and so on. We then went into our groups and started to film our mystery characters. We used the camera and the tripod safely whilst filming. But at the same time it was fun and my group have got a lot of bloopers with laughter and such. Throughout the whole camera shots as a whole we never see the characters face. As i had to play the person on the other side of the camera i never got a chance to do much camera work but the other members of the group did a good job. Although i didn't get to do a lot of camera i did get to position the camera a lot onto the tripod. We got our idea that was on paper on through to the camera. The shorts that were most successful was mainly the mid shots and the long shots even though we didn't have a lot of the long angle shots the ones we used were very successful. My most favourite part of filming was the mistakes that happened alot throughout. Mistakes like the lift not coming when you want it to, or it coming on time and someone is in it or even when you're shooting and someone doesn't realise and they end up walking past in the shot. But its fun to look back on when rewinding the tape because it looks funny when seeing the person the the other side of the camera laughing when they're not suppose to and stuff like that. Which reminded me of bloopers you get on a dvd. It showed how much we listened in tutorial because we didn't forget to use the 5 second rule in the process of filming. I learnt a lot about mise-en-scene, because there was times where we had to re shoot somthing because we had a different background than before and its suppose to be set in the same place. So i've learned a different side of mise-en-scene when filming than looking at a movie and analysing. It is harder than it looks because of the clothes and the setting. As we did't get to finish all our shots we had to finish the rest off in todays lesson.
8th December as my group were behind in the filming we had to finish off a couple of more shots. Then we went to the computer room to start the editing. As we did a lot of work on the computer we didn't save by using the command s every 2minutes. Which then bad luck kicked in and the computer crashed and we lost all our work. But on the bright side our group has learnt from our mistakes and now it deffinately wont happen for the actual coursework. Next day lunch time my group managed to fix the short clip and finished the editing.
On the 11th December we watched an action thriller in class. We got the chane to watch Bourne Identity, but we got given a sheet to fill. We had to write down three scenes that show suspence by the mise-en-scene, sound and by the camerra works.
15th December the whole class learnt all the possible differtent thrillers and we learnt what kind of characters will be in each of them and where they usually take place. Then we got to watch 5 short clips of thrillers and we had to write down the camera works, the editing, sound and the mise-en-scene.
On thursday in Gez's lesson we were given another tutorial by Mickey on how to use the camers and the tripods. We learned how to put in and how to take out the battery,how to put them on the tripod without breaking the camera, we also learnt how to do stuff like recording, putting it off and on standby, how to do mid-shot long-shot and so on. We then went into our groups and started to film our mystery characters. We used the camera and the tripod safely whilst filming. But at the same time it was fun and my group have got a lot of bloopers with laughter and such. Throughout the whole camera shots as a whole we never see the characters face. As i had to play the person on the other side of the camera i never got a chance to do much camera work but the other members of the group did a good job. Although i didn't get to do a lot of camera i did get to position the camera a lot onto the tripod. We got our idea that was on paper on through to the camera. The shorts that were most successful was mainly the mid shots and the long shots even though we didn't have a lot of the long angle shots the ones we used were very successful. My most favourite part of filming was the mistakes that happened alot throughout. Mistakes like the lift not coming when you want it to, or it coming on time and someone is in it or even when you're shooting and someone doesn't realise and they end up walking past in the shot. But its fun to look back on when rewinding the tape because it looks funny when seeing the person the the other side of the camera laughing when they're not suppose to and stuff like that. Which reminded me of bloopers you get on a dvd. It showed how much we listened in tutorial because we didn't forget to use the 5 second rule in the process of filming. I learnt a lot about mise-en-scene, because there was times where we had to re shoot somthing because we had a different background than before and its suppose to be set in the same place. So i've learned a different side of mise-en-scene when filming than looking at a movie and analysing. It is harder than it looks because of the clothes and the setting. As we did't get to finish all our shots we had to finish the rest off in todays lesson.
8th December as my group were behind in the filming we had to finish off a couple of more shots. Then we went to the computer room to start the editing. As we did a lot of work on the computer we didn't save by using the command s every 2minutes. Which then bad luck kicked in and the computer crashed and we lost all our work. But on the bright side our group has learnt from our mistakes and now it deffinately wont happen for the actual coursework. Next day lunch time my group managed to fix the short clip and finished the editing.
On the 11th December we watched an action thriller in class. We got the chane to watch Bourne Identity, but we got given a sheet to fill. We had to write down three scenes that show suspence by the mise-en-scene, sound and by the camerra works.
15th December the whole class learnt all the possible differtent thrillers and we learnt what kind of characters will be in each of them and where they usually take place. Then we got to watch 5 short clips of thrillers and we had to write down the camera works, the editing, sound and the mise-en-scene.
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